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On Slow Lactose Fermenting B. Coli in Urinary and Intestinal Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Leonard S. Dudgeon  and
R. J. V. Pulvertaft
Leonard S. Dudgeon
Affiliation:
(Professor of Pathology, University of London)
R. J. V. Pulvertaft
Affiliation:
(Pathologist to the Medical and Surgical Units, St Thomas's Hospital.)
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(a) The slow lactose fermenting bacilli which we have investigated cause an acute febrile illness in man. The general symptoms may be so severe that the diagnosis of typhoid and paratyphoid fever has been made. Such cases are invariably due to an acute infection of the urinary tract, more specially acute pyelitis or pyelo-nephritis, but the general symptoms may be so severe at the onset of the illness that the urinary manifestations are masked.

(b) Three fatal cases have occurred.

(c) In cases of acute diarrhoea, with or without blood and mucus, these bacilli may be present in pure culture in the faeces.

(d) Chronic urinary infections due to these bacilli are uncommon.

(e) The bacillus of so-called columbensis fever is allied to these bacilli.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , August 1927 , pp. 285 - 304
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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